Exp Web
- 1. EXPRESSION WEB Onkar Bhat K Microsoft Student Partner 8 th sem, Dept of Information Science RVCE
- 2. What is Expression Web? Creating sophisticated applications and content for you as a designer. Faster and richer interface development for windows applications or web sites that you may design.
- 3. THE AGENDA User Experience The Tool Standards Support Methods of Designing Cascaded Style Sheets Demo
- 4. Designer – Developer Collaboration
- 5. Designer – Developer Productivity Microsoft Tools for Designers & Developers Declarative Programming through XAML Third Party Tools (e.g. Aurora by Mobiform, ZAM 3D by Electric Rain) Designers design With XAML designers & developers can streamline their collaboration Developers add business logic
- 6. User Experience Defines Market Categories
- 9. DEMO INTRODUCTION TO EXPRESSION WEB STANDARDS BASED WEB- SITES, CSS BASED LAYOUT,FORMATTING AND STYLES
- 10. Cascaded Style Sheets Cascading style sheets (CSS) give you control over the presentation of your web pages Types External css Internal css Inline css Styles : Class based Element based Id based
- 11. Pros Relatively easy learning curve, especially for users experienced with FrontPage2003 Excellent Integration with VS2005 and other ASP.NET 2.0 Development environments Includes ASP.NET development server eliminating need for a dedicated web server Advanced support for PHP Supports Silverlight, Flash, Photoshop import, Ajax
- 12. Cons Does not render include files. Dreamweaver automatically renders them Doesn’t have a MAC version It is possible to open ASP.NET 2.0 files in Dreamweaver but true support for the platform is not present
- 13. Microsoft Expression Web gives Dreamweaver a Run For Its Money -InformationWeek Brian Wood is a long time Dreamweaver developer who is director of training at Evolve, an Adobe-authorized learning centre in Seattle. With a foot in both worlds, he’s also a moderator of Expression Web’s online beta forum and is helping testers.
- 14. “ The biggest thing going for Expression Web,honestly, are the CSS capabilities,”Wood says.”The program does a great job of supporting Web standards.I can click something and see what properties apply to it and what it’s inherited
- 15. As a trainer , Wood particularly likes the fact that Expression Web’s design view renders HTML and XHTML code somewhat more accurately on-screen than Dreamweaver seems able to.” There are a few things in there that make Dreamweaver’s previews look slightly different from the same code viewed in a standalone browser, such as IE or Firefox.
- 16. Resources Microsoft Expression public site: http://www.microsoft.com/expression .Net 3.0 framework reference library: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library Windows Presentation Foundation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/building/presentation/
- 17. QUESTIONS?